...Imagination in Education
May 28, 2015
www.liveoakcharter.org
In This Issue... Page 1
Commencement End-of-Year Assembly 8th Grade Rose Ceremony Fly Away Ceremony Packing and Cleaning Page 2
Event Calendar Rummage Sale Recap Foundation News Page 3 Bulletin Board Community Events Strings News Page 4
Gratitude and Appreciation Page 5
Middle School Handwork Page 6
2015-16 Calendar
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The Faculty, Administration and Board of
Live Oak Charter School
is honored to announce the Commencement for the Eighth Grade
Class of 2015
Family, Friends and Students of Live Oak are invited to attend on
Sunday, June 7 at 4:00pm
Lucchesi Center
320 North McDowell Blvd, Petaluma Music by Live Oak Choir and Strings Reception and refreshments to follow.
Packing, Cleaning & Moving Help Needed
Thursday, June 4 after dismissal and Friday, June 5.
Volunteers, please check with your class teacher about when the work should take place to minimize disruption for the students and the Fly Away Ceremony starting at 11:40am on Friday.
Upper Campus - Classrooms need to be cleaned. Furniture, desks, chairs and
boxes need to be stacked high. Teachers will have a list of tasks on their black-board.
Lower Campus - We will need lots of volunteers since we have to move
every-thing out of the classrooms and do a thorough cleaning. Teachers will have a
End-of-Year Assembly
Wed Jun 3, 8:45-10:15am
Families and Friends are invited to join us in Herzog Hall for a final performance by students in grades 1-8.
8th Grade Rose Ceremony
Fri June 5, 8:30-9:15am
On the last day of the school year, all classes will gather together to send our 8th graders on to their next adventure with our encouragement and best wish-es. This sweet ceremony echoes the Rose Ceremony at the beginning of the school year, in which 8th graders ushered their 1st grade buddies across the rainbow bridge and welcomed them into the grades. The Live Oak community is welcome to join us for this event, which will be held on the lawn in front of the Kindergarten classrooms.
Kindergarten Fly Away Ceremony
Fri June 5, 11:40am
EVENT CALENDAR
Thu May 28
8th Grade Field Trip
Big Basin Redwoods State Park 5th Grade Field Trip
Mt Tamalpais
8:30-11:30am K- Sunflower Field Trip Ragle Ranch
11am-12pm 4th Grade Play for Students Lower Campus
5:30-7:30pm Executive Meeeting Dempsey’s 6-7pm 4th Grade Play for Parents
Lower Campus
6-7pm Incoming K. Parent Meeting K. classrooms
Fri May 29
8:30am-2:30pm 4th Grade Field Trip
Watershed Shollenberger Park 8:30am-3:30pm 6th Grade Global Games
Live Oak Campus 3pm 5th Grade Returns 3:10-4:10pm Chess 4 Kids
Handwork Room Sat, May 30
11am 8th Grade Returns
Wed Jun 3
8:45-10:15am End-Of-Year School Assembly Herzog Hall
12:30-3pm 4th Grade Walking Field Trip Busking in Downtown Petaluma & Ice cream @ Lala’s Thu Jun 4
1st grade Outdoor Walk 9:30am-12:30pm 4th Grade Walking Field Trip
River Clean-up 10:30am-12pm 8th Grade Graduation
Rehearsal, Lucchesi Center 6:15-7:45pm Finance Meeting
Fri Jun 5 Last Day of School 8:30-9:15am 8th Grade Rose Ceremony
All School Event on K. Lawn 12:40pm Grades Dismissal
Sun Jun 7
4-6pm 8th Grade Commencement Lucchesi Center
Wed June 10
6:30-8:30pm Foundation Meeting Aftercare Room Thu Jun 11
7-10pm LOCS Board Meeting MPR
The Live Oak Community Calendar is hosted at the liveoakcharter.org website. You may sub-scribe to the calendar and link it to your own datebook. If you have an event to include in the calendar, please submit it to Muriel in the office or via email at [email protected].
Foundation News
Why we give...
“Our graduates can contribute to our community without effort.”
“Live Oak understands that the children are our future and teaches them empathy and kindness as well as fostering a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world around them.”
“Inclusiveness-All children, not just a select few, participate in music, art, drama, outdoor education and ‘extra’curricular activities that build charac-ter and enlighten childhood.”
“I give to be part of something bigger than myself and my children.”
Every contribution counts! Donate now at liveoakfoundation.org
Live Oak Foundation Donations and Pledges Received
7/1/14 - 5/26/15
Class
Number of
Families
Donation or
Pledge Rec’d
Donation
Received
Sunflower K
22
91%
91%
Rosemary K
22
82%
82%
1st Grade
30
77%
74%
2nd Grade
32
81%
78%
3rd Grade
32
69%
66%
4th Grade
32
84%
84%
5th Grade
28
45%
45%
6th Grade
30
73%
73%
7th Grade
32
78%
78%
8th Grade
27
63%
63%
Overall
Participation
287
75%
74%
Rummage Sale Success!
A big thank you to all who helped with our annual Rummage Sale. Although the weather thwarted our normal Thursday set-up, with the help of 5 Credo student volunteers (we could NOT have done it with-out you) and a small but mighty band of parents, we managed to get everything set up on Friday and had a great weekend.
The Rummage sale brought in almost $3800, which goes directly to the Live Oak Foundation, thus directly benefiting our kids!
A special thanks to those who came Sunday for clean-up. It is such a gift to get fresh muscles at that time. It took us only 2 hours instead of 4-6 hours because of your commitment. Thank you!
Strings News:
Spring Cleaning and Summer Bargain
by Jeanette Isenberg, Strings Teacher
All students : It’s time for a good spring cleaning of cases, binders and fingers.
• Vacuum out the case and inventory the contents, condition should be as good as when you got the instrument in the fall.
• Case contents: Instrument with working strings, bow with a reason-able amount of hair, rosin, cleaning cloth and shoulder rest. Please make a note of strings in old condition or bow hair that needs help. • Music Binder: this should last every student many years. Music
should be in good condition and when needed protected by plastic page protectors or page reinforcements. A bonus item is a pouch con-taining a sharpened pencil, eraser and perhaps page reinforcements i.e. donuts. The binder should have all music from the beginning of the year.
• Spring clean hands by trimming finger nails. Short nails = better playing = more fun.
Summer Bargain- Instrument Rental and Summer Music
You may choose to keep instruments over the summer. The benefits are many. To name a few: maintain current skill levels; resize instrument where appropriate and possible; get some individual lessons and further build skills; play music with friends and family; attend a music camp or festival.
This year the rental fee per instrument is $15 OR proof or promise of a tuning device at home and a music stand at home.
Other requirements: Current instrument inventoried and deemed by Ms. Isenberg to be in good care and condition. Signed use agreement for the summer.
Summer instrument includes clean, inventoried and properly sized in-strument (first come first serve) and a packet of summer music materials, skill level specific. The packet will include: skill builders, fiddle song, duet, classic tunes and a surprise!
Contact Ms. Isenberg by Wed, May 27 to reserve an instrument.
INSTRUMENT RETURNS:
ALL instruments borrowed from the Music for Schools program must be returned at the last strings class. These instruments are often numbered started with a Roman numeral. We have violins and a cello from Music for Schools in the upper grades. If you have a Music for Schools instru-ment and wish to borrow an instruinstru-ment over the summer please rsvp as directed above for summer instruments.
ALL instruments belonging to Live Oak Charter School which will not be borrowed for the summer will need to be returned by the last strings class.
Dates of last strings classes will be published by grade through the class-room emails
MUSIC BOOK AND ACCESSORY RETURNS:
All music books i.e. “New Directions for Strings” or “String Builder” must be returned in reasonable condition to Ms. Isenberg by the last string class of your grade. Any other items borrowed from the school must also be returned at that time.
I am looking to rent my one bed-room apartment, starting in June. The apartment is two blocks from the school. This is a unique living sit-uation. I am looking for a single per-son or possibly a single parent with a child, preferably who attends Live Oak Charter School. Rent is $800/ month. Person should be open to di-versity and want a clean and whole-some living environment. Please call (817) 829-6876 for more details and share with your friends/family. Mayela (next year 6th grade parent)
---Live Oak family is selling honey from their own beehives in Sebastopol. We recently bottled delicious, raw, unfiltered honey. No pesticides are used in our hives. 8 ounce jars are $5 each, 16 ounces are $10 and 32 ounces are $20 each. Honey can be picked up at Live Oak. Please con-tact Kristie at 971-0230 or
Community
Bulletin Board
Community Events
Petaluma Kids Theatre
Presents HMS Pinafore
Ages 9 to 17. Register by June 8. Ses-sion runs June 8-July 30, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 3:30 to 5:30pm. Performances July 31,
Au-gust 1, 2, 7, 8, 9. Cost $300.
Call Leslie at 707-971-0677 or go to www.clearheartgallery.com for in-formation.
Day On The River &
Kayak Camp
Gratitude and Appreciation
Our deepest gratitude to our remarkable and dedicated faculty for being so generous with their time and for in-spiring and nourishing our students with passion and care.
For those of you who may not know me, I have had the privileged of working in the after school program for the past few years. I cannot say enough about the time I have been able to spend here at Live Oak. I have enjoyed it more than words can say. The knowledge I have gained through my time working here has been and will contin-ue to be invaluable. I hope to be able to bring a bit of the sense of community I have come to know here into my future ventures; the amount of caring and love that flows through this school is inspiring. The appreciation for nature and beauty that is nourished here is one I will carry with me as I go. As I leave Live Oak I will continue to hold the school and community in my heart and soul.
- Alex Steffen
A BIG shout out for Ms. Muriel who has masterfully navigated the new CAASPP testing process with our 3rd - 8th graders. This was a huge task and your organizational skills shined bright during this new rollout.
Sunflower Kindergarten would like to thank all the families who contributed to our classroom community this school year. With your help we were able to accomplish a lot with the many volunteers who helped with crafts and projects, festivals and events, driving on field trips, cleaning the classroom, bringing flowers and soup vegetables. Special thanks to everyone for coming to Parent Evenings. Your involvement both big and small demonstrates to our children that school is an important part of their lives. Thank you to Jacqueline Machado and Tasha Martinez class parents, Megan Berka field trip organizer, Emily Bisquez cleaning fairy coordinator, Katie Sveinson teacher appreciation, and Hector Martinez wood working projects.
Warmly,
Mary Alice and Lori
A huge thank you to my third grade parent team of gardeners, cooks, bakers, servers, and cleaners! Francesca, Brenda, Sara, Gwen, Nicole, Pam, Jill, and David, a million thanks!!! The kids enjoyed every minute of it, and we could not have done it without you!
-Julie Meierding
Thank you to the amazing parents of this year’s 8th grade class. It has been a pleasure being a part of our class community over the years. I wish you and your graduates the best of luck in the adventures to come!
--Jen S.
The Live Oak Faculty would like to appreciate the many people in our community that make Live Oak such a wonderful place to work.
• To Mr. Morgan for leading us with vision, competence, compassion, and humor;
• To Ms. Kim, Ms. Julie B., and Ms. Muriel for completing zillions of tasks everyday to make our lives easier and for cheerfully hearing our many requests;
• To the Live Oak Board for working tirelessly and meeting late into the evening to make sure our school is following a secure path;
• To the Live Oak Foundation for the generating funds we need to survive and thrive; • To our aides for supporting us and sharing in our daily efforts in the classroom;
• To our parent community for entrusting your children to us, for volunteering in abundance, and for making our many events and field trips possible;
